Livadh Beach · Himarë
One net over most of the floor
One canopy of pale camouflage netting runs over most of the seating floor, strung between timber posts and hung with dreamcatchers. It does not shut the light out — it breaks it up, and what is underneath moves with it all afternoon.
The net breaking the light across the rugs
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You sit on the floor
The ground is laid with overlapping kilims, and the seating on them is round mandala cushions, low tables built from rough boards, and slouched bean bags in olive, rose, teal and pale yellow. There are chairs and benches around the edges for anyone who would rather not get down there.
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One net over most of the floor
A wide canopy of pale camouflage netting — a fine mesh hung with cut fabric leaves — is strung between timber posts over most of the seating floor, and hung with dreamcatchers and rope hearts. It breaks the middle of the day into moving dapple rather than shutting the light out. The rugs past its edge lie in full sun.
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Nothing here matches
The furniture is salvaged and none of it was bought as a set: a painted bureau, fringed standard lampshades on the deck, a rotary telephone, an old black trunk. After dark the lamps are most of the light, with festoon bulbs strung overhead.
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Cocktails are the point
It is a bar rather than a restaurant, and what comes across the counter is mixed drinks. Boho runs on a summer season on the Riviera.
The seating floor under the net, looking out past the gate to the water
The sign over the entrance, and the year it gives
The bay
The beach the floor is laid on
Livadh is the wide bay north-west along the coast from Himarë town. The guide's page on Livadhi Beach covers the water and the approach; ours covers what happens once you are on the rugs.
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